Samuel Armstrong Lane (1802-1892) was an English surgeon who practised in London and served as consulting surgeon to St Mary's Hospital. He is remembered chiefly for a landmark in the history of blood transfusion: in 1840, aided by a consultant named Dr. Blundell, he performed what is recorded as the first successful whole blood transfusion, undertaken in an attempt to treat hemophilia, the inherited bleeding disorder in which blood fails to clot normally. In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and was counted among its original 300 Fellows. This record rests on a short biographical article, so his wider career is not described here.
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Samuel Armstrong Lane FRCS (1802-2 August 1892) was an English surgeon
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was an English surgeon, consulting surgeon to St Mary's Hospital
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